"Gloves"

Underwater Peoples

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Like "Carios kelleyi I", the first single from Julian Lynch’s upcoming album, Lines, "Gloves" is a rosy piece of propulsive psych-folk that continues to move away from the amorphous acoustic prog explored in his 2011 release Terra. Lynch slowly builds momentum with a searching guitar riff and accompanying drum pattern that never crests into a full-blown climax, while layering a loping bassline, lazy horn section, and, finally, his quiet vocals to haunt the back of the mix. His lyrics are almost completely obscured, as small phrases emerge from the murmur before he distinctly sings: "I’m moving surely, don’t make me come down." With "Gloves", Lynch confidently constructs a richly enigmatic slice of stirring folk rock, using his impressionistic sense of composition to focus his vision rather than muddy it.